Happy first day of Spring! For the past 18 years, Pike Place Market volunteers and community members have brightened up corners (15 corners to be exact!) of downtown Seattle by passing out daffodils grown by Market farmers. Today about 9,000 daffodils were passed out. Here … Continue reading Daffodil Day 2015: Happy First Day of Spring!
School Program Leaders met in the “Classroom” in the Economy Building to plan for the upcoming classroom Field Trips. We then headed out into the Market to reintroduce ourselves to some of the vendors. The first stop was a sad … Continue reading Gearing up for 2014-15!
School tours begin again on September 25th! We are excited to begin our 22nd year, teaching Seattle elementary school kids about the amazing Pike Place Market! There are some cool changes, new businesses, and so on (the Market never stands … Continue reading Ready to start a new year!
On June 13, the last classroom of the school year went through the Market on an educational tour. We served 93 classrooms with 2,143 students in 2012-13! That’s a lot of kids getting a first-hand, behind the scenes, learning experience about … Continue reading End of the 2012-13 School Year